Oakland Athletics at Chicago White Sox Box Score, June 19, 1983 | Baseball-Reference.com
Britt Burns threw a complete game 1-0 shutout at Comiskey against the A's.
Why is this a significant game? The Sox were going nowhere fast under skipper Tony LaRussa. They were three games under .500 after the game, 5th place in the old AL West (back then, there were only two divisions in each league).
This started a 70-30 run to the end of the season to finish with the best record in all of MLB that year.
This year's team, it could be said, did it in reverse (hot first half, 50/50 second half), but maybe this means there will a reverse outcome in the playoffs.
Britt Burns threw a complete game 1-0 shutout at Comiskey against the A's.
Why is this a significant game? The Sox were going nowhere fast under skipper Tony LaRussa. They were three games under .500 after the game, 5th place in the old AL West (back then, there were only two divisions in each league).
This started a 70-30 run to the end of the season to finish with the best record in all of MLB that year.
This year's team, it could be said, did it in reverse (hot first half, 50/50 second half), but maybe this means there will a reverse outcome in the playoffs.

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